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Few people are born entirely free from
blood taint. This it often Try slight or
remote, and aometimea may not develop
it all in on generation, bat breaks oat
ii a serious disease later.
Cancer, tba moat dreadful of all dis
eases, ia often the result of aome blood
taint innentea from generation back.
It often appear as a mere mole or in
significant pimple, which later develops
into an alarming condition. No one
know bnt that he may be subject to an
inherited impurity in the Mood, nor can
ke tell whether or not this may some
day crop out in the form of destructive
csicer. It is, therefore, important that
my little aore or scratch, which docs
ot readily heal, be given prompt atten
tion, or a seriona condition may result.
Mr. Robert bmedley, ol Ucala, Ha.,
ni the victim of a malignant cancer,
which first appeared in the manner
ibove described. He writes :
"At first I paid no attention to the
tittle blotches on my face, thinking they
iouUI soon pass away. Be lore long,
lowever, they became sore, and soon
pn to enlarge. I applied ordinary
al remedies, but they had no effect,
I then consulted a physician. v hen
told me I bad cancer, I became
ed and hastened to obtain treat-
it for I knew how dangerous cancer
received the beat medical atten
but the cancer continued to
worse' until the physicians
Illy said that I would have to
K an operation performed, as that
tne only nope lor me. ints i ra
id to submit to, as I knew cancer was
pod diseaae, and my common sense
me that it was four to expect an
ation to cure a blood disease.
knowing S. S. S. to be a good blood
rty I decided to try it, and the first
e produced an Improvement I
nued the medicine, and in four
:hi the last scab dropped off. Ten
i have elapsed, and not a sign oi
iiease has returned."
e alarming increase in the number
iths which occur as the result of a
cal operation is attracting general
won, and a strong sentiment against
metnods of treatment is fast de-
g among the most intelligent
it seems that in almost everv
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tceuful, the learned physicians de-
Fi once mat an operation must be
ned, and the keen blade o the
pn is recklessly resorted to.
many caustic plasters which are
1 to remove cancers are more oain-
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peration is as great as the disease
no piaster or surgical oper-
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IUTE1 LAND OT GOLD.
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. Away out upon the Pacific coast,
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cipally stale officials of the youug
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pose it is to outfit practical and ex
peiienced prospectors on the co
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I he rich gold fields of the North.
This is your opportunity. You have
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250,000 shares of the preferred or
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should certainly be accepted as a
iruarautee of good faith and the
promise of an honest administra
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Will D. Jenkins, Secretary of
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Cure and wis complete
ly restored to health,
and has not taken a
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pot exemption law.
THE COMING SERMON.
Dr. Talmage ex
preasea himself
most forcibly up
on the preaching
-T or the ruturt. uk-
UDerai view ot
the subject Mia
text Is Luke tx,
CO, "Go, thou, and
preach the kingdom of God."
The gospel is to be regnant over all
haarta, all circles, all governments and
all lands. .The kingdom of God spoken
of In the text is to be a universal king
dom, and Just aa vide as that will be
the realm sermonlc "Go, thou, and
preach the kingdom of God." We hear
a great deal In these days about the
coming man, and the coming woman,
and the coming time. Some one ought
to tell us ot the coming sermon. It Is
a simple fact that everybody knows
that most of the sermons of to-day do
not reach the world. The vast majori
ty of the people of our great cities nev
er enter church.
The sermon of to-day carries along
with it the deadwood of all ages. Hun
dreds of years ago It was decided what
a sermon ought to be, and it Is the at
tempt of many theological seminaries
and doetors of divinity to hew the mod
ern pulpit utterances Into the same
old style proportions. Booksellers will
tell you they dispose of a hundred his
tories, a hundred novels, a hundred
poems to one book of sermons. What
is the matter? Some say the age Is the
worst of all ages. It Is better. Some
say religion is wearing out, when It Is
wearing in. Some Bay there are so
many who despise the Christian relig
ion. I answer there never was an age
when there were so many Christians or
so many friends of Christianity as this
age has our age, as to others a hun
dred to one. What Is the matter then?
It Is simply because our sermon of to
day Is not suited to the age. It Is the
canalboat In an age ot locomotive and
electric telegraph. The sermon will
will have to be shaken out of the old
grooves or It will not be heard and It
will not be read.
Before the world Is converted the
sermon will have to be converted. You
might as well go Into a modern Sedan
or Gettysburg with bows and arrows
Instead of rifles and bombshells and
parks of artillery as to expect to con
quer this world for God by the old
styles of sermonology. Jonathan Ed
wards preached the sermons best
adapted to the age In which he lived.
But If those sermons were preached
now they would divide an audience In
to two classes those sound asleep and
those wanting to go home.
But there Is a coming Bermon
who will preach It I have no idea. In
what part of the earth It will be born
I havo no Idea. In which denomina
tion of Christians It will be delivered
I cannot guess. That coming sermon
may be born In the country meeting
house on the banks of the St. Lawrence
or the Oregon or the Ohio, or the Tom
blgbee, or the Alabama. The person
who shall deliver It may this moment
lie In a cradle under the shadow of
the Sierra Nevadaa, or In a New Eng
land farmhouse, or amid the riccflelds
of southern savannas; or this mo
ment there may be some young man in
some of our theological seminaries In
the Junior or middle or senior class
shaping that weapon of power; or
there may be coming some new bap
tism of the Holy Ghost on the church
es, bo that some of us who now stand
in the watch towers of Zlon, waking to
the realization of our present Inefficien
cy, may preach it ourselves. That
coming sermon may not be 20 years
off. And let us pray God that Its ar
rival may be hastened, while I an
nounce to you what I think will be
the chief characteristics of that ser
mon when It does arrive, and I want to
make the remarks appropriate and sug
gestive to all clauses of Christian
workers.
First of all, I remark that that com
ing sermon will be full ot a living
Christ, In contradistinction to didactic
technicalities. A sermon may be full
of Christ, though hardly mentioning
his name, and a sermon may be empty
man's Christ. An Invalid's Christ. A
of Christ, while every sentence Is rep
etitious of his titles. The world wants
a living Christ, not a Christ standing
at the head of a formal system of the
ology, but a Christ who means pardon
and sympathy and condolence and
brotherhood and life and heaven. A
poor man's Christ. An overworked
man's Christ. An Invalid's Christ. A
farmer's Christ A merchant's Chrust
An artisan's Christ. An every man's
Christ
A symmetrical and finely worded
system of the theology Is well enough
for theological classes, but It has no
more business In a pulpit than have
the technical phrases of an anatomist
or a physician in the sickroom of a pa
tient. The world wants help, Immedi
ate and world uplifting, and It will
come through a sermon in which Christ
shall walk right down into the Im
mortal soul and take everlasting pos
session of It, filling It as full of light
as Is the noonday firmament That
sermon of the future will not deal with
men In the threadbare Illustrations of
Jesus Christ. In that coming sermon
there will be Instances ot vicarious
sacrifice taken right out of everyday
life, for there is not a day somebody is
not dying for others. As the physi
cian, saving his diphtheric patient by
sacrificing his own life; as the ship
captain, going down with his vessel,
while he is getting his passengers Into
a lifeboat; aa the fireman, consuming
In the burning building, while he Is
taking a child out of a fourth story
window; as last summer the strong
swimmer at Long Branch or Cape May
or Lake George himself perished try
ing to rescue the drowning; aa the
newspaper boy, not long ago, support.
I In Ilia m A that fat Mma vain fcf In. 1t V e v - -
lnjt his mother for aome rears, hla la
ralM mother, when offered by a gentle
man 60 cents to get aome especial pa
per, and he got It and rushed up In
hie anxiety to deliver . it. and was
crushed under the wheela of the train,
and lay on the grass with only strength
enough to say. "Oh, what will become
of my poor, sick mother now?"
Vicarious suffering? The world Is
full of It An engineer said to me on
a locomotive In Dakota.: "We men
seem to be coming to better apprecia
tion than we used to. Did you see
that acsount the other day of an engi
neer, who to save bis passengers, stuck
to his place, and when he was found
dead in the locomotive, which was up
side down, he was found still smiling,
his hand on the air brake?" And as
the engineer said it to me he put his
hand on the air brake to illustrate his
meaning, and I looked at him and
thought, "You would be Just as much
of a hero in the same crisis."
Oh, In that coming sermon of the
Christian church there will be living
Illustrations taken from everyday llfo
of vicarious suffering Illustrations
that will bring to mind the ghastlier
sacrifice of him, who, In the high plac
es of the field and on the cross, fought
our battle and wept our griefs and en
dured our struggles and died our death.
A German sculptor made an image
of Christ, and he asked his little child,
2 years old, who It was, and she said,
"That must be some very great man."
The sculptor was displeased with the
criticism. So he got another block of
marble and chiseled away on It two or
three years, and then he brought In his
little child, 4 or 6 years of age, and he
said to her, "Who do you think that
Is?" She said, "That must be the ono
who took little children In his arms
and blessed them." Then the sculptor
was satisfied. Oh, my friends, what
the world wants is not a cold Christ,
not an Intellectual Christ, not a severe
ly magisterial Christ, but a loving
Christ, spreading out his arms of sym
pathy to press tbe whole world to his
loving heart
But I remark, again, thnt the coming
sermon of the Christian church will be
a short sermon. Condensation Is de
manded by the age in which we live.
No more need of long introductions
and long applications and so many di
visions to a discourse that it may be
said to be hydraheaded. In other days
men got all their Information from the
pulpit. There were few books, and
there were no newspapers, and there
was little travel from place to place,
and people would sit and listen two
and a half hours to a religious dis
course, and "seventeenthly" would find
them fresh and chipper. In those
times there was enough room for a
man to take an hour to warm himself
up to the subject and an hour to cool
off. But what was a necessity then is
a superfluity now. Congregations are
full of knowledge from books, from
newspapers, from rapid and continu
ous Intercommunication, and long dis
quisitions of what they know already
will not be abided. If a relluloiis teach
er cannot compress what he wishes to
say to the people In the space of 43
minutes, better adjourn it to some oth
er day.
Paul preached until midnight, and
Eutychus got sound asleep and fell out
of a window and broke his neck. Some
would say. "God for him." I would
rather be sympathetic, like Paul, and
resuscitate him. This accident Is oft
en quoted now In religious circles as a
warning against somnolence In church.
It is Just as much of a warning to min
isters against prolixity. Eutychus was
wrong In his somnolence, but Paul
made a mistake when ho kept on until
midnight. He ought to have stopped
at 11 o'clock and there woum have
been no accident If Paul might have
gone on to too great length, let nil
those of us who are now preaching the
gospel remember that there is a limit
to religious discourse, or ought to be,
and that In our time we have no apos
tolic power or miracles. Napoleon, In
nn address of seven minutes, thrilled
his army and thrilled Europe. Christ's
sermon on the mount the model ser
monwas less than 18 minutes long at
ordinary mode of delivery. It Is not
electricity scattered all over the sky
that strikes, but electricity gathered
Into a thunderbolt and hurled, and It
Is not religious truth scattered all
over, spread out over a vast reach of
time, but religious truth projected In
compact form that' flashes light upon
the soul and fives its Indifference.
Oh, when the coming sermon of the
Christian church arrives, all the
churches of Christ in our great cities
will be thronged. The world wants
spiritual help. All who have burled
their dead want comfort All know
themselves to be mortal and to be im
mortal, and they want to hear about
the great future. I tell you, my
friends, If the people of these great
cities who have had trouble only
thought that they could get practical
and sympathetic help In the Christian
church, there would not be a street In
Washington or New York or Boston
which would be passable on the Sab
bath day. If there were a church on
It; for all the people would press to
that asylum of mercy, that great
house of comfort and consolation.
A mother with a dead babe In her
arms, came to the god Veda and asked 1
to have her child restored to life. The
KOd Veda said to her. "You eo and net
a bandful of mustard seed from a house
In which there has been no sorrow and
In which there baa been no death and
I will restore your child to life." So
the mother went from house to house
and from home to home looking for a
place where there had been no sorrow
and where , there bad been no death,
but she found none. She went back to
the god Veda and said: "Mr mission is
a failure. Tou see. I haven't brought
the mustard seed. I can't find a place
where there has been no sorrow and
no death." "Ob." says the god Veda.
"understand, your sorrows are no.
woreejhai tv '-wt vs'.
all have our grlefa, and all have our
heartbreaks.'
Laugh, and tbe world laugba with you;
Weep, and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow Its
v. mirth, . -
But has trouble enough of Its own.
, We hear a great deal or dlscusslcn
now all over the land about why peo
ple do not go to church. Some say It
Is because Christianity is dying out
and because people do not believe In
the truth of God's word, and all that
They are false reasons.
The reason Is because our sermons
are not Interesting and practical and
sympathetic and helpful. Some one
might as well tell the whole truth on
this subject, and so I will tell it The
sermon of the future the gospel ser
mon to come forth and shake the na
tions and lift the people out of dark
ness will bo a popular sermon Just for
the simple reason that It will meet the
woes and the wants and the anxieties
of the people.
That sermon of the future will be
an everyday sermon, going right down
Into every man's life, and it will teach
him how to vote, how to bargain, how
to plow, how to do any work he Is
called to, how to wield trowel and pen
and pencil and yardstick and plane.
And it will teach women how to pre
side over their households and how to
educate their children, and how to im
itate Miriam and Esther and Vaslitl
anil Eunice, the mother of Timothy,
and Mary, the mother of Christ, and
those women who on northern and
southern battlefields were mistaken by
tho wounded for angels of mercy fresh
from tho throne ot God.
Yes I have to tell you the sermon of
the future will be a reported sermon.
If you have any Idea that printing was
invented simply to print secular books
and stenography and phonography
were contrived merely to set forth sec
ular Ideas, you are mistaken. The
printing press is to be tho great agency
of gospel proclamation. It is high time
that good men, Instead of denouncing
the press, employ It to scatter forth the
gospel of Jesus Christ. The vast ma
jority of people In our cities do not
come to church, and nothing but tho
printed sermon can reach them and
call them to pardon and life and peace
and heaven.
Do you exhort In prayer meeting? Be
short and be spirited. Do you teach in
Bible class? Though you have to study
every night, be interesting. Do you
accoHt people on the subject of religion
In their homes or in public places?
Study adroitness and use common
seuse. The most graceful, the most
beautiful thing on earth Is the religion
of Jesus Christ, and if you awkwardly
present It It Is defamation. We must
do our work rapidly, and we must do
it effectively. Soon our time for work
will be gone. A dying Christian took
out his watch and gave it to a friend
and said: "Take that watch. I have no
more use for It. Time has ended for
(me, and eternity begins."
Oh, my friends, when our watch has
picked away for us for the last mo
ment and our clock has struck for us
the last hour, may It be found we did
our work well, that we did it in the
' very best way, and whether we preach
ed the gospel in pulpits, or taught Sab
bath ('lasses, or administered to tbe
Nick as physicians, or bargained as
merchants, or pleaded the law as at
torneys, or were busy as artisans or as
husbandmen or as mechanics, or were
like Martha called to give a meal to a
hungry Christ, or like Hannah to make
a coat fur a prophet, or like Deborah
to rouse the courage of some timid
Itarak In the Lord's conflict, we did our
work In such a way that It will stand
the test of the judgment. And In the
long procession of the redeemed 'hat
marches round the throne may it be
found there are many there brought to
uoj through our Instrumentality and
in whose rescue we are exultant. Hut,
oh, you unsaved, wait not for that
corning sermon. It may come after
your obsequies. It may come after the
stonecutter has chiseled your name on
the slab GO years before. Do not wait
for a great steamer of the Cunard or
White Star line to take you off the
wreck, but bait the first craft, with
however low a mast, and however
small a hulk, and however poor a rud
der, and however weak a captain. Bet
ter a disabled schooner that comes up
in time than a full rigged brig that
comes up after you have sunken. In
stead of wnitlng for that coming ser
mon It may be 20, 50 years off take
this plain Invitation of a man who, to
have given you spiritual eyesight,
would be glad to be called the spittle
by the hand of Christ put on the eyes
of a blind man, and who would con
sider the highest compliment of this
service if at the close 500 men should
start from these doors, saying:
"Whether he be a sinner or no, I know
not. This one thing I know whereas
I was blind, now I see." Swifter than
shadows over the plain, quicker than
birds In their autumnal flight, hastier
than eagles to their prey, hie you to a
sympathetic Christ. Tke orchestras of
heaven have already strung their in
struments to celebrate your rescue.
And many were the voices around the
throne
Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his
own.
I'nuatantatloua Leopold,
The King of the Belgians Is an unas
suming individual Returning from a
walk one morning during his recent
visit to Paris, and noticing a crowd
standing outside his hotel in the Rue
de RIvolI, he asked a street boy what
the people were waiting for. "They
want to see the King of tire Belgians,
sir," answered the boy. "He is not
very Interesting, my lad," said the
King; and he walked unnoticed Into
tbe hotel. New York World.
Blxzley You must dislike Newcomb
very much. ,
Orixily I bate him as fiercely as a
barber hatea a bald-beaded man with
a fall bard. TrK .
THE AMEER IWDICWAWT.
Xnowa How to With Bekls
L'aod HS Jfaana.
London. Nov. 21 A well Informed
correspondent at CabuL capital of Af.
ghanlatan, gives an account ot an Inter
view which he had with the ameer of
Afghanistan. In which the ameer, refer,
ring; to the rlnlna; of the tribes on the
frontier of British India, suld:
"I cannot Imagine how any one can
think me responalble for the actions
of the Haddah Mulluh. who Inntlirated
the trouble tor It was he who raised
AMElilt OP AFGHANISTAN,
the revolt of the Shinwurrlrs uml other
triboH UKaliiHt me shortly after my uc
resKlnn. I liuiuircil into his iinti-c.-ili iits
uml fulleil to discover lihi triln-. cast
or birthplace.
"When my Rovernor at .!e.ill:i'.pa.l
stopped the Iladilah Mullah's follow
ers from leuvtiiK AfKhanlstun they s:ibl
they hud the rli;ht to llht the Kni'.lish.
for their leaders had toM them 1 ha..
Klven them permission In !o so. ,,
Kovernor thereupon arrested several i.f
the leuders, who were cnrylnt; ureeii
Jehinl (holy war) Uuks. He rent tli.-iu
to Cabul, where they are now In prlsnii.
and I know how to deal with them."
HER MARITAL WOES.
Mm. Hmllcy' Iteiiooim Kor Ak Inir For
a Limited Divorce.
WushliiKton, Nov. 2!!. Kllzabeth I..
Smiley commenced proceedings here
yesterday for a limited divorce from
Charles V Smiley. They were mar
ried In this city in 1M0. Mrs. Smiley
alleges that they are first cousins, de
clares that some time previous to their
marriage her husband "inoculated her
with ideas not In accordance with mod
ern civilization, and such was the In
fluence the defendant Rained over her,
that she saw thinKs only In the light
In which he presented them to her.
rarely exercising her own judgment,
so much so that she would put In writ
ing requests to him to do many things
utterly at variance with common sense,
and admissions as to her conduct," and
that he even made her believe It was a
favor to take sums of her money and
invent It In his name.
Continuing the petition recites "that
he has made her married life one of
continuous self effacemcnt, abnegation
and bending to his will, and she has
been made to believe it to be her duty
to yield to the slightest wish of an ar
bitrary and exacting self appointed
judira and master." She alleges that
she thought she deserved auch treat
ment In order to become worthy to
move on the same high plane on which
he hus led her to believe he moved.
The petitioner asserts that he "mad"
out a list of petty offenses against her,
which she still has, for which she
should pay tines varying from five
cents to $1, requiring her to agreo to
pay the same cheerfully and without
appeal or argument as to the right or
wrong thereof."
The defendant Is a New Englander.
but has lived In Washington for the
lost eight or ten years. He compiled
the fisheries statistics of the last cen
sus, and was subsequently sent by the
fish commission to collect statistics on
the l'acltic coast.
Tint Army of Pensioners.
Washington, Nov. 13. Secretary
of
the Interior Tlllss. In his annual report
submits estimates aggregating $156.
5.12.419 for the appropriations by con
grcss for the fiscal year ending Jun
30, 1X!9. Discussing the pensions
he
Buys 200.000 pension claims are await
lug adjudication, ami it is estimated
thnt 40 or 50 per cent of these will be
finally admitted. If they are rapidly
adjudicated they will swell the pension
roll jr..000,000 to $7,000,001). When, how
ever, these claims nre adjudicated and
first payments made thereon the
amount of the pension roll will de
crease very rapidly, possibly to $125.
000,000 or $130,000,0110 the ilrst year.
Fntiil lire In Halt I more.
Baltimore, Nov. '23. The entire con
tents of the five story building, Nos.
317 and 31'J North Howard street, oc
cupied by William II. Scott, popularly
known us "tliest Scott," us a furniture
store, were yesterday destroyed by lire.
In which one woman, Mrs. Susan E.
Maxon, of 1536 Williams street, lost her
life. The total damage to that and ad
joining property Is estimated ut about
$135,000. Mrs. Maxon, who was a cus
tomer In the Ptore, Is thought to have
fallen or to huve fainted from fright,
her body being found soon after the
flames hud been subdued.
Kx-MlntNtcr Tnylor'n Prediction.
Ithaca. N. Y., Nov. 20. In his ad
dress at Cornell university lust night
Hannis Taylor, ex-United Stutes min
ister to Spain, said: "Let congress but
speak the final and emphatic word
recognition and in 90 days the long
and bloody tragedy will be over, the
whole Christian world will rejoice,
Spain will be rescued from an Impos
sible situation, there will be no war
with the United StateB, and Cuba will
be free."
To Do Ite-turued to Austria.
Baltimore, Nov. 22. Forty-eight men
from the Interior of Austria, who were
arrested last week In the swamps of
Mississippi by United States inspec
tors, on the charge of violating the
alien labor contract law, were brought
here yesterday. They will be sent back.
Closing; School Ynr Fortoiny.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 23. The city
school board last night ordered the
schools closed from Dec. 13 to Jan. 3,
for lack ot funds, the school fund hav
ing been reduced In accordance with a
genera) plaa ot retrenchment recently
adopted. . ...
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